Posted: Friday February 22, 2008 10:14AM; Updated: Friday February 22, 2008 11:46AM
By Jimmy Traina
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No Kidding Around
Hope Dworaczyk :: Katy Winn/Getty Images
If the powers-that-be here at SI are reading this, we'd like to suggest that Hope Dworaczyk appear in next year's "players' wives" section of the Swimsuit issue. We just discovered Dworaczyk, who is currently dating new Maverick Jason Kidd, and reportedly is pregnant, while putting together our weekly Caught in the Act gallery (Kidd and Dworaczyk appear in photo No. 3). The one glitch, though, is that Dworaczyk and Kidd still have to get hitched.
Not Your Father's Baseball Preview Column
ESPN's Dana Jacobson harassing the Royals' David DeJesus, Jim Edmonds making an all-out dive to catch a pop up that lands behind home plate and Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez settling their differences and having sleepovers once again are just three of the very amusing things Rivalfish is predicting for the upcoming baseball season. (Warning: Link contains strong language.)
Big League Stew thinks there's a good chance we'll see Manny Ramirez on Lost. Stew is also wondering what's up with all of the Red Sox references on the popular show.
Cuzoogle wonders how some famous people would look if they had Chris Bosh's funky hairdo. It's even gone the extra mile of Photoshopping Bosh's top on the likes of Roger Clemens, Shaq, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Mentalfloss.com unearthed a gem while recently trolling Amazon.com: Basketball's Best-Kept Secret, a 1994 hip-hop CD
featuring 10 NBA stars, including Shaq, Jason Kidd and Gary Payton. Mentalfloss has the full rundown of songs and samples of each.
Preparing for Memphis-Tennesse showdown ... UTEP women's hoops player is a model ... Barack Obama meets Mack Brown ... Pete Carroll is on Facebook ... Video: Cops Chokeslam Hurricaned Fan ... more.
A stumbling model, a grasping-for-breath newscaster and a female anchor getting fed up with the immature men add up to hilarity in this clip. (Thanks to Nico in Culver City, Calif., for sending us the link.)
